2010: The year in review. From Snowmageddon to the tea party rally to the Metro Red Line crash anniversary, be sure not to miss our look back at the events and people that shaped the Washington region in the past year.

Need to know.

Rhee hire to exit D.C. schools. Despite assurances from former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle A. Rhee that the management team she assembled would remain intact until the end of the school year, the system's chief operating officer will leave next month. The "seamless transition" Rhee promised may have been only that--a promise.

Don't put gift boxes on curb. Yes, you heard it right. Police warned this week that burglars use the boxes to assess what goodies lay in wait inside. We know it's fun to make the neighbors jealous, but you'll only tempt a thief with that empty iPad or flat-screen TV box.

Travelers still marooned in New York. Thousands of travelers trying to get home after the holiday weekend remain stranded in cold New York airports, stuck buses, and unmoving subway trains in New York, stranded by the weekend blizzard. Some people are enjoying their extended holiday, others not so much.